Am 04.08.2010 12:56, schrieb sid009:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am new to Bacula and an average Linux user. I am trying to setup
> Bacula to work with our HP LTO4 Autochanger (7 slots + 1 mail slot).
> I have managed to label all the tapes and I can see all the volumes
> listed via bconsole. The problem I am having is Auto-rotating the
> tapes. Right now when a tape gets filled all the jobs either go into
> a pending state or fail.
>
> Ideally I would want a tape to be used per day (so 5 tapes for Monday
> - Friday) using incremental backups and a full backup on Saturday.
> After every successful back up I want the tape to be ejected to the
> mail slot to be take off site.
>
> Does anyone have any example configurations that I could use. Do I
> need to provide my bacula-dir.conf here? I have been struggling to
> make this work for weeks any help would be appreciated.
>

We make full backup for every day - Mo -> Fr. (Dell PowerVault Tape-Library)

For each day we have a unique pool with a single set of cassettes
respectively a weekend pool with several sets of cassettes - each
cassette set covers the required volume of backup data.

The weekend pool contains several sets of cassettes identified by 
different cassette labels - but only one set is in the changer - the 
bacula "list volumes" command shows which set has status "InChanger = 1".

Exchanging a complete set is easily done by manually pulling the
cassette magazine.

-- 
Ralf Brinkmann

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